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A unique narrative that combines historical analysis with reflections on cultural heritage. History of the Jews and the Jewish Quarter of Córdoba takes readers on a journey through the places where they lived, from the hypothetical al- Andalus Jewish quarter to other sites frequented by the Jews of Córdoba. After the Christian conquest of 1236, a new and repopulated Jewish quarter emerged, whose community revolved around the synagogue, and which would endure the dramatic events of the 1391 pogrom and the 1474 anti-convert riot, before their expulsion from the city in 1483. Focusing on the splendor of Córdoba, capital of al-Andalus, the House of Sciences , it also explores the figures who, like Maimonides, contributed to the Spanish-Jewish Golden Age—a hub of cultural influence that would find its continuation in the poetic and scientific vitality of Lucena. But this work also invites us to understand the Jewish quarter and the Synagogue of Córdoba—one of the three existing on the Peninsula and among the first monuments protected by law—where layers of coexistence, conflict, and memory overlap, and whose hi